It took us a while, but we upgraded the 128 meg memory sticks you can order with your BigAdmin Bucks to the more attractive 2 gig size. Now you can walk around with the collected works of William Shakespeare in 17 different languages hanging off your keychain. Just imagine how good it will feel to let "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" roll off your tongue when your boss wants to know when you'll be done tuning the database.

There's probably enough room in there to include a picture of every Corvette ever made. In every color. And the entire McMaster-Carr bolt catalog.

Here's the number of bucks you get for each contribution to BigAdmin:

• Link (1 buck)
• Script (5 bucks)
• Short Tech Tip - 1 page or less (10 bucks)
• Regular-Length Tech Tip - 2 to 4 pages (20 Bucks)
• Long Tech Tip/Article - 5+ pages (30 Bucks)
• Long Article - 8 or more pages (40 Bucks)

These rewards apply to contributions to both the hub and the wiki. By the way, don't send us any more excerpts from Sun documentation. We may have fooled us once or twice before, but we memorized it all, so you won't get away with that again.

We are wicked sorry it took so long to improve our goodies. To make up for our delay, we're reducing the number of bucks it takes to get a stick. For a limited time, instead of 20 bucks, they will cost 12 bucks.

photo of '63 Corvette Stingray courtesy of Flickr